they should just wrap itself up because again gordon sunderland wouldn't draw the direct link between donald trump and what was happening in ukraine but he took is very close to the line if anything it has moved the democrats closer to passing articles of impeachment in the house but as i've said many times before kemal the reality.

most highly anticipated witness that president onil trumps impeachment hearings and ambassador gordon sunderland didn't disappoint in his testimony sunderland told will make is that he was pressured to follow orders in ukraine by trying slow every giuliani and that washington had pushed kiev to investigate trance rival joe biden and his links to ukrainian energy firm to raise money and by 10 for white house access as i testified previously mr giuliani's requests were a quid pro quo for arranging a white house does it for president selenski. mr giuliani was expressing the desires of the president of the united states and we knew these investigations were important to the president but was they also by quid pro quo involving military aid i tried diligently to ask why the aid was suspended but i never received a clear answer i later came to believe that the resumption of security aid would not occur until there was a public statement from ukraine committing to the investigations of the 2016 elections and to resign as mr giuliani had demanded just not good enough according to republicans you acknowl

dylan's testimony was wrong thing to remember here those statements are put out to the media gordon sunderland was actually under oath when he gave his testimony so that is very important gordon sundin wouldn't go as far as to say donald trump was the man behind all this but he did say look we were walking in the direction of the president and if there was an investigation into the bidens he was asked well who would benefit from that and he answered of course while the president would answer so what we've got here in washington d.c. is more playing out of both sides putting forward their arguments but politics in washington d.c. just now is really tribal so you have this very important evidence from gordon sunderland the democrats think it should be important and they probably moved a lot closer to impeachment judy his testimony they have been at any point in this process where republicans still believe the president did nothing wrong and there is nothing that gordon sunland anyone else is going to say that at the moment will change that view thank you for that update alan fischer in washingto

inauguration fund what is very interesting is that having done that someone on the committee said to gordon sunderland are you aware of what a quid pro quo is and he answered yes i am well he would having done that donald trump is not happy but he says look gordon sandal and says there was no quid pro quo which is not what he said a tall but he said on that basis not implicating donald trump then this impeachment hearing should end it's not going to end it's going to continue and we're going to hear another evidence from another witness in the next though or so thank you very much alan fish every us all the latest from washington joining me now is michael isikoff chief investigative correspondent yahoo news joins me from washington so very clear testimony from golden sonnen there that that caylee was a quote. suggesting that everything we have heard so far about this from president trant denying that there was any wrongdoing saying that it's all part of a political witch hunt against him is wrong. yeah look this was very powerful damning testimony by gordon sohn lend a couple of lines just leapt out.

ambassador to the european union gordon sunderland who now remembers telling an aide to the ukrainian president devoted to me that selenski. warsaw meeting in september along with the u.s. vice president mike pence that u.s. military aid to ukraine would likely not occur until ukraine and an investigation into corruption as part of this investigation included allegations against the son of the former vice president and possible democratic presidential nominee for next year's 2020 at election here in the u.s. joe biden. testified on october 17th to 3 house committees and it lasted around 10 hours you can imagine the level of detail in his deposition now it transpires that the week after his deposition he returned with his lawyers to capitol hill here in washington to review what he had said so as you can imagine their reaction to this news has created quite a stir among democrats in particular and president meanwhile is still claiming that the inquiry is illegitimate and the republicans that are standing behind them the majority are standing behind them have been calling it that this i

ambassador gordon sunderland. today's testimonies were very significant because we heard from 2 more witnesses who have firsthand. confirmation or firsthand experiences of ballots. about these goings on in ukraine that we have heard so much about as you mentioned mr holmes was told directly by mr sandland by ambassador sunderland that president trump doesn't care much about ukraine and only cares about big stuff like the investigation into the bidens and fiona hill has also witnessed ambassador sunland talk about this with ukrainian officials in the white house and tell them a meeting with president trump what only happen if president selenski announced these investigations the u.s. house speaker nancy pelosi she spoke earlier today in which she had this to say would you take a listen and the evidence is clear that the president. the president has used his case for his own personal gain and in doing so undermined the national security of the united states by withholding. military assistance to ukraine to the benef

trump impeachment inquiry has been accused of sexual misconduct by 3 women the women that are gordon sunderland retaliated against them professionally after they rejected his of. denies the allegations. officials in the u.s. state of texas of ordered residents of 4 towns to evacuate after a new blast at a petrol chemical plant 60000 people have been told to leave 3 workers were injured in the initial blast early on wednesday. demonstrators across colombia are holding this 2nd national strike in less than a week as part of ongoing protest against president even duke his right wing government and its anticipated economic plans protesters are also demanding the country's riot police be disbanded after a young demonstrator was killed by a tear gas canister over the weekend. apple has agreed to moscow's demands to show the crimean peninsula as part of russia the region is currently shown as russian territory on its map and whether apps but only for uses within russian borders russia seized crimea from ukraine in 2014 and later an exchange in a referendum that kiev and its western allies say was ille

as an alice i think what's really important is that this person, gordon sunderland has refreshed memorynterested choice of liquid. ——as an analyst. a second possible has come forward, we now have somebody who had direct contact with president donald trump about this and makes it clear, it was a quid pro quo, another would be could use for this is a bribe. so to go after your political opponents in exchange for the us government providing military aid to another country, could potentially be impeachable and that will make it very difficult for trump's republican supporters to defend this. it's quite interested, donald trump in the white house and those around him from the beginning have been very clear, this is a witch—hunt, this all just been very clear, this is a witch—hunt, this alljust part of the campaign on the part of the democrats to find anything they can and they are not going to succeed, again. how do you think this is playing out in terms of the run—up to the election next year? blessing in kentucky, and in other states, in local elections, the republicans are not doing well.

testimony is not correct interestingly enough they put their statements to the media gordon sunderland was actually giving evidence under oath and if you lie under oath even to a congressional hearing you can be in really big trouble you have to remember that so big important day historic day donald trump tweeting saying it's all over the impeachment inquiry should just wrap itself up because again gordon sandland wouldn't draw the direct link between donald trump and what was happening in ukraine but he took his very close to the line if anything it has moved the democrats closer to passing articles of impeachment in the house but as we've said many times before come out the reality is politics in washington d.c. in 2019 is very tribal the democrats will have hared things that they think put donald trump very firmly in the dock the republicans think this is very much nothing to get worried about and donald trump did nothing wrong whereas donald trump himself he underlined exactly what you just said there by standing on the white house lawn today and saying i wanted nothing i want to d

and i will read this other section, this is bill taylor talking about gordon sunderland, european ambassador. they had electronic text messages exchanges were taylor expressed concerns about what may have been going on and if there was potentially a quid pro quo. taylor -- someone told me many times that president trump so there was no quid pro quo. i observed to move forward with aid there must be an investigation. that's part of his testimony there. the other things i'm noticing and this is at the top of the document, 324 pages, there is a large section that has been redacted. in the other transcripts that have been released this week, we haven't seen that, that's new. and again, a little bit of flavor there. you had these guerrilla tactics by republicans, trying to ask questions and bull rush the skiff. if you start at the very top of the transcript they refer to roy. roy is chip roy, republican congressman from texas and he was someone who is trying to get involved in this. they are only allowing intelligence committee members to ask questions during the hearing and that is something tha

at kimberley let starts with the allegations concerning gordon sunderland this all comes after a rather dramatic testimony in that impeachment inquiry how do you think these allegations will impact the situation as it stands. well gordon sagal and just to remind viewers it is really the star witness for the democratic party's case against president donald trump and and really the basis in many ways for why they believe that he should be impeached his testimony particularly damning he behind closed door said there was no quid pro quid pro quo but then changed his testimony and said very publicly that in fact that the president was leveraging his office in order to try and get an investigation into his political rival joe biden so now the fact that the has had his credibility challenge with these allegations from these 3 women certainly is problematic for the democrats in all of this the 3 women have accused gordon someone of sexual misconduct one of them says that it haunted her that she saw the he had been confirmed as an ambassador and essentially gordon solid is denying all of this on

of who's going to give evidence then was from timothy morrison who said that he was told by gordon sunderland the ambassador to the e.u. that the ukrainian aid would be unfrozen if the president announced there was going to be an investigation into the 2016 election and also possible corruption by joe biden so gordon sunderland is due to give. evidence on wednesday that little nugget certainly makes his that is testimony much much more interesting not that it wasn't going to be interesting before and certainly another key testimony on wednesday just remind us and what happens once these public hearings are finished. well we still go a little way to go public hearings they go through we will get what we saw at the end of the hearing today both sides stating their case the republicans through devon in a standing up say this is a farce see you tomorrow and adam schiff the committee chairman saying look this is where it all points this is what donald trump did wrong this is why he cannot do this he was looking to get personal benefit from a political decision of the united states government no it

by the republicans there was no quid pro quo or donald trump or said that many times here is gordon sunderland one of the main conduit between the white house and the ukrainian saying yes there was a quid pro quo donald trump saying i hardly know the man he delivered $1000000.00 to the inauguration campaign he would regularly in contact with donald trump according to his testimony he said that senior figures in the administration including the vice president the secretary of state the energy secretary the chief of staff they all knew that there was a quid pro quo that they were putting pressure on the ukrainians to deliver an investigation into joe biden a political rival no interestingly enough in the last couple of hours we've heard from the vice president's office and we've heard from the secretary of state's office they say that gordon's on dylan's testimony was wrong he gave evidence under or thought means if he is lying he could be in big trouble and they just put out statements to the mean. saying that they got this thing wrong this was a big day it was an important day it could possibl

ambassador gordon sunderland if he'd successfully pushed the ukrainians into a night sing the investigation. all when the call with president trump the member of my staff asked investors on what president trump thought about ukraine as the song responded that president front cares more about the investigations of biden trump later said he did not remember the conversation. i don't recall not even a little bit. but democrats are hoping to build a case that trump did in fact abuse his power of office to pressure ukraine behavior they say would warrant removing him from office is this what americans should now expect from their president if this is not impeachable conduct. what is the republican say it's not rather than denying the man 1000 evidence of oppression campaign they are now focused on arguing that it is not grounds for impeachment it seems unlikely that fresh evidence will change that strategy when the next round of hearings begin on friday. you're watching the news coming up ahead how politics is turning musical and as a form of pop star emerges as a challenger for the highest offi

gordon sunderland told lawmakers that the white house made military aid to ukraine conditional on ukraine investigating trumps democratic rival joe biden. israel appears to be heading for its 3rd election inside of a year as opposition leader been guns has announced that he has not been able to form a new government guns had until midnight on wednesday to establish a governing coalition. britain's prince andrew says that he will step back from his public duties for the foreseeable future he has been embroiled in controversy over his friendship with a convicted pedophile jeffrey epstein he was found hanged in new york jail cell 3 months ago. the stand off between free democracy protesters and police at hong kong's besieged polytechnic university appears to be coming to an end it's stalled around a 100 protesters are still inside the campus. this is news from berlin you can follow us on twitter at news or visit our website w dot com. i'll be back at the top of the i want. to. cut. 8 years off of the overthrow of the gadhafi regime libya has descended into almost continual conflict between i

ambassador to the european union gordon sunderland now he's had close dealings with president trump and interesting for democrats he revised his initial testimony and that could give democrats a little bit more weight in their attempts to prove that president trump pressured ukraine so wednesday is set to be an interesting day here in washington. pablo foley alias there for us is pretty down some of the other stories making the news at this hour china has condemned the legislation passed unanimously by the u.s. senate which aims to protect human rights in hong kong's democratic bill put the territories special trading status with the u.s. in jeopardy and it bans the sale of crowd control munitions to hong kong beyond. serious as anti-aircraft defenses have thwarted a series of israeli air raids near the capital damascus israel has released a statement saying that its jets did target syrian and iranian forces in syria in retaliation for rockets fired towards israel on tuesday. libyan police and military have deployed armored vehicles to end a blockade of a major gas plant by protesters d

gordon sunderland, the us ambassador to the eu was the man who reached out on behalf of president trump he said, in order to press the fight against corruption that but subsequently he amended his testimony and basically seemed to agree with the fact that there was a pretty —— quid pro quo, that aid money was withheld in turn for the investigation intojoe biden being launched. remembering that he was the direct point person between the president and the ukrainian government it will be very interesting to see what he has to say about those phone calls with president trump. the us senate has passed a bill to limit munitions sales to the hong kong police, as the stand off between police and protestors at hong kong's polytechnic university entered its fourth day. only a few protestors are still inside. they face an increasingly desperate situation with supplies of water and food running out. at the height of the campus occupation there were hundreds of pro—democracy actvists — but their number has dwindled. rupert wingfield hayes reports from the campus. they came out looking more like pris

details of a so-called shadow foreign policy run by trump's post the lawyer rudy giuliani and gordon sunderland. david holmes is a political counsellor at the u.s. embassy in ukraine he will testify alongside her he says that he overheard a cold between donald trump and some glue and the u.s. ambassador to the e.u. in which the president asked the diplomats if ukraine would investigate the bidens let's go live now to what the the capital of this is how the job castro is just outside the chambers where today's impeachment inquiry will begin what will wait just run through for us what we're expecting to hear today. sure adrian so the testimony this morning from the yonah hill who is a former member of the national security council she was the ukrainian and russian expert there she in a sense is really a stand in for her boss john bolton the former national security adviser to the president who has thus far refused to comply with any efforts to bring him forward for testimony now the hill has said previously and in the closed door hearings that have already occurred that bolton called this shadow

special envoy to ukraine kurt volker and gordon sunderland the current u.s.ambassador to the witnesses have said that both current song when the played a role in trump's unofficial channel to ukrainian government officials how does your castro has all the transcripts reveal that a key witness has reversed his testimony regarding the question that is at the center of this impeachment inquiry and that is whether trump used u.s. security aid to bribe the ukrainian government to help him with his reelection campaign the witness in question here is gordon song and the u.s. ambassador to the e.u. and initially he had testified that there was no quid pro quo but upon reviewing the transcripts of other witnesses who had implicated him directly he now says his memory has been jarred iranian president hassan rouhani says his country will begin injecting uranium gas into centrifuges that an underground richmond facility from wednesday this is the 4th measure taken by iran since july in response to u.s. sanctions reinstated by president trump washington withdrew from the

now, gordon sunderland, he is the eu ambassador appointed by donald trump, a trump fundraiser who wasikely not occur until ukraine provided the public anti—corruption statement that we‘ve been discussing for many weeks. now, republicans can say it doesn‘t matter, who cares about whether the president was leveraging this? but it can‘t maintain the defence that there was no quid pro quo. the white house has defended the president this evening, saying the president has done nothing wrong. jon sopel there, our north america editor at the white house. people living with illness or disability or having problems with benefits are most likely to rely on foodbanks. that‘s according to research carried out by heriot—watt university for the charity the trussell trust. it described 94% of people who use foodbanks as destitute, with many living on less than £50 a week. in 2010, the trussell trust handed out 41,000 food parcels. by last year, that had increased to 1.6 million. 0ur social affairs correspondent michael buchanan has been speaking to one woman in northern ireland who had to use foodban

gordon sunderland that call took place a day to try personally pressed president selenski to investigate his rival joe biden and his son. and a former advisor to trump has now been found guilty of 7 charges including lying to congress and witness tampering roger stone was charged earlier this year during the investigation into russian interference in the 2016 election he's been found guilty of lying to congress about his contacts with wiki leaks during the campaign and his efforts to push one of his associates to then back up his lies he'll be sentenced in february and faces up to 50 is in jail. israel says it's carried out airstrikes targeting hamas in response to rockets fired from gaza 2 rockets struck the israeli city of beersheba in the south overnight hamas has kept some distance from the recent exchanges of fire between israel and the palestinian group islamic jihad $34.00 palestinians were killed in the violence the worst boarder cross border fighting in months or a force that has more from gaza. well so far no claim of responsibility for this latest round of rocket fire coming o

gordon sunderland she has returned he has more from washington d.c. . wednesday's public testimony by the current u.s. ambassador to the e.u. good and some of them is now turning out to be the one of the key moments in this investigation he'd already raised eyebrows because in his initial deposition to congress he said he knew nothing about any kind of quid pro quo and then subsequently a few weeks later he submitted written test of it said oh you know i said i didn't know anything about a quick break or in fact it was me who told you queen officials that if they did some digging on the bidens or maybe the military aid that we promised you might be released quite a change he didn't tell congress that at the time now on friday we had information from a stall for the ukrainian embassy that he was present at a lunch i saw him hold on trump on his cell phone and trump said so are they going to do the investigation words to that effect and some of them said not ever going to do it i love you though that having anything you want again something he didn't tell

gordon sunderland that call took place a day after truck personally pressed president selenski to investigate his rival joe biden and his son now israel says it's carried out air strikes targeting hamas and response to rockets fired from gaza 2 rockets struck the israeli city of beersheba in the south overnight hamas has kept some distance from the recent exchanges of fire between israel and the palestinian group islamic jihad 34 palestinians have been killed in that file and the worst cross border fighting in months how the forces has moved from gaza. well so far no claim of responsibility for this latest round of rocket fire coming out of gaza 2 rockets fired in the early hours of this morning towards the israeli town of besharam and they were intercepted by the israeli anti missile iron dome system but seems little doubt that israel blames those rockets on hamas because in the israeli airstrikes that followed a few hours later israel says it was targeting hamas sites here inside gaza now that is a shift from what's been taking place up until now in this latest escalation israel has been ch

diplomat gordon sunderland says donald trump pushed officials to pressure ukraine to investigate political rivals in return for a. song from project songs but democratic presidential hopefuls keep up the pressure. here is likely the most corrupt president in the modern history of america. hello and welcome i'm peter w. watching al-jazeera life my headquarters here in doha also coming up a show of support for hong kong protesters as the u.s. congress threatened sanctions if human rights aren't upheld. not your god he would not let a non. issue of the world he would defy tradition and raise their voices to demand change. top story this hour a man once considered an ally of donald trump has publicly stated the president did want to withhold military aid to ukraine in exchange for an investigation into his political rival joe biden america's ambassador to the e.u. testified before the impeachment inquiry into the u.s. president on weapons day gordon songdo and also implicated other top officials saying quote everyone was in the loop alan fischer is in washington. from the u.s. ambassador to th

could pro quo president trump saysysysit neve happened with ukraine but now gordon sunderland the us ambassador to the eu is saying it did happen. after he says his memory was refresh this week he sent impeachment investigators a 3 page addition to his testimony. >>linking us aid to ukraine with an investigation into trump's political rivals. cnn's alex marquardt has a look at what he said. >>in black and white one of the president's top envoys changing his testimony now admitting he told ukraine's leadership that hundreds of millions of dollars in military aid we're being held up until president trump got the investigations. he ambassador gordon someone who's a longtime republican donor turned diplomat i gave money to trump's inaugural committee him ending his original testimony writing. i now recall speaking individually with mister yermak where i said resumption of us aid would likely not occur until ukraine provided the public anti-corruption statement that we had been discussing for many weeks that public statement that trump wanted according to the top us diplomat in ukraine wa

we just listen to gordon sunderland described about how they all understood there was a second channelnvolving rudy giuliani and this is fundamentally what investors taylor said in their testimony last week. paul: it was clear long ago even in the phone call that trump was wanted this investigation. >> yeah, as it was made clear in the interview with bob ray, former independent counsel, the democrats are arguing that somewhere in the center of this there is something that qualifies as bribery or extortion. i don't think we've heard anything in any of the testimony that establishes that smoking gun for the president and democrats. it's these shown insinuations that the president was pressuring people and used rudy giuliani to pressure them and i would say one final thing, and all the reporting about this when they finally say what do we get today in the testimony, what they got was pressure for the ukrainians to announce an investigation, rather than undertake in a mastication. that will be a crucial distinction when he gets to the trial in the senate. paul: one big issue is whether the

low level official but he claims to have overheard that phone call between president trump and gordon sunderland in the ke key avenue restaurant. in the transcript, which is peppered with salty language, he says the president doesn't give a s about the ukraine. holmes, my recollection, no not at all. doesn't give a s about ukraine. but holmes went on and said that sausondland -- cared about the investigation into the bidens. these issues will come up over the next three days and here are some of the key players as you noted. jennifer williams, national security advisor, and wednesday, sondland himself appears. thursday and a late add a comment david holmes takes the stand and this leads to possibilities of even more witnesses. either private depositions or additional public testimony. >> lots of reading and lots of public testimony. we are learning about the first lawsuit, and what can you tell us about this? >> a white house official has sued politico and one of its reporters claiming lying, deceit, and unethical conduct. lawyers claim the assertion that patel passed investigative information t

gordon sunderland is the us ambassador to the eu. don sondland is us ambassador to the eu, he's seen as an ally of the president — we know he gave a million dollars to the trump inauguration — and we know he was central to the trump administration's policy on ukraine. the accusation is that mr trump connected us policy on ukraine — with demands for investigations into his political rivaljoe biden. and that mr trump's personal lawyer rudy giuliani was orchestrating it all. today — gordon sondland said this. mr giuliani's requests were a quid pro quo for arranging a white house visit for president zelinski. mr giuliani demanded that ukraine make a public statement announcing the investigations of the 2016 election d&c server and brees ma. mr giuliani was expressing the desires of the president of the united states and we knew these investigations were important to the president. let's unpack that statement. bbc‘s washington dc bureau chief paul danahar mr sondland was appointed ambassador to the eu last year — he'd previously run a lucr

expected to be released in the united states this time to central figures in the probe diplomats gordon sunderland and vocal were allegedly pushing ukraine to investigate president donald trump's democratic rival joe biden summons a wealthy republican donor he was rewarded with an ambassadorship to the european union by donald trump he even attended president oldham is a lens is an organization in ukraine and then brief trump afterwards the transcripts say some former ukrainian envoy kurt volker discussed communications between trump's private attorney richard jani and ukrainian officials with house investigators summons testimony says he didn't understand until much later that giuliani was actually pushing ukraine to investigate biden it turned him from a trump ally into a witness against him more would she have returned in washington yet anything out yet she had. now the transcripts or the partial transcript out yet but yeah as you say we already know what they said in their depositions what we're hoping for is to get a little bit more granular detail about the arguments they were putting forwar

on that telephone call between trump and ukraine's president and also expecting to hear from gordon sunderland the u.s. ambassador to the european union following all of this for us castro live for us from capitol hill and i think the most extraordinary moment we're all saying in this hearing came in that exchange between event of each and adam schiff when she was all still respond to twitter attacks from the president in real time that's right i mean talk about political theater mariyam this happened in americans living rooms and they were following along as this hearing was broadcast on live television and you know president trump had said before he'd be too busy to watch these impeachment inquiry hearings which really have his presidency at stake but today he apparently did have time to tune in at least for a little while and it was while maria juran of each was on the stand that trump on twitter wrote that wherever she went turned bad he was referencing the other ambassador post that she has had in somalia and other places prior to going to ukraine and that led to this very revealing an in

gordon sunderland has revised his impeachment inquiry testimony now saying he was involved in a quid pro quo with ukraine the trump says he told a ukraine official that aid was tied to the president's requests to investigate his rival. yemen's government stance signs of paris sharing agreements with separatists in the south as it was. brokered by sidey arabia the southern separatists are backed by the u.a.e. which has been fighting alongside the governments and societies rebels in the rest of yemen. and the u.s. says iran's plan to expand uranium enrichment amounts to nuclear extortion the move by iran is another step away from the 2015 nuclear deal. and iraq's government says lifting an overnight curfew in baghdad but there's been no improvements in security to protest as were killed earlier in the day in basra and another team were killed in nasiriyah attacks the total number killed since the beginning of october more than $260.00 secretary general antonio good terrorist says he's shocked by the violence and the u.n. report says security forces are continuing to commit severe human

officials due to testify one of them is gordon sunderland the u.s. ambassador to the european union and sutherland will be on the hot seat because it over missions he made in earlier testimony about he phoned calls he had with trump over ukraine rob reynolds al-jazeera washington. and us company hellcat reports now the impeachment process has actually helped president donald trump raise more money for his campaign but he will come to water before the 1st day of public hearings to impeach president donald trump or even over here talking about the witch hunt is that what you mean trucks campaign was sending out e-mails portray him as a victim of democrats determined to overturn the 2016 u.s. election to stop them the trump reelection campaign set out to raise $3000000.00. in 24 hours it exceeded that goal. trump as a fund raising phenomenon is nothing new the former reality t.v. star term president has a history of turning political gaffes into gold. take this moment at a recent rally in minneapolis as the impeachment inquiry was heating up trump turne

president donald trump has been accused of sexual misconduct 3 women have made allegations against gordon sunderland the u.s. envoy to the european union they claim he retaliated against them professionally after they rejected sexual advances sandlin denies all allegations calling them concocted songlines testimony linked president trumps decision to withhold aid from ukraine with investigations into his political rival joe biden. maren transpersonal lawyer has been accused of pursuing lucrative business deals with ukraine officials while pushing the president's agenda yes media's reporting rudy giuliani explore deals worth hundreds of thousands of dollars that's what he pressured ukraine to dig up damaging information on biden giuliani's influence on u.s. ukraine policy is a focus of the impeachment inquiry giuliani says he never accepted a penny but 2 weeks of impeachment hearings in the u.s. have done little to shift the american public's opinion on president donald trump without a clear mandate most political analysts say the republican controlled senate will not try to convict him but with the

morrison who's giving evidence at the moment he's a national security advisor and he was asked did gordon sunderland see anything to the ukrainians about the aid and he said yes they were told if they didn't they would be able to free up that aid if they announced investigations into the $26000.00 election and also into the bidens no by any reading that is a quid pro quo that is exactly what the democrats are saying that donald trump wanted to get an investigation into a political rival which of course is against the law to take their own of all of this essentially is that if you are a democrat and you believe donald trump did something wrong all you're hearing today is building up the testimony that backs that up if you are a republican and you think donald trump did nothing wrong and he has the right to direct foreign policy then you will continue to think that what is interesting is that mitch mcconnell who is the leader of the republicans in the senate and that's where this process could end up it will be there that they will vote whether or not to import impeach donald trump he says he thinks i

phone andi placed a call on his mobile phone and i heard him announce himself several times of gordon sunderlandot on speakerphone, but i could hear the president's voice through the earpiece of the phone. the president voice was loud and recognisable. he held the phone away from his year, presumably because of the loud volume. i heard the ambassador agreed the president and explained he was calling from kiev. president trump clarified that he was in ukraine. he said, yes, i am in ukraine and said that the ukrainian president loves your as. i then heard president trump as he is going to do your investigation, he replied he is going to do it. the president will do anything you ask him to do. even though i did not ta ke him to do. even though i did not take notes of these statements, i have a clear recollection of the state m e nts have a clear recollection of the statements being made. i believe my collea g u es statements being made. i believe my colleagues who were sitting at the table also knew that the ambassador was speaking with the president. the conversation then shifted to the effo rts c

gordon somnolent the u.s. ambassador to the european union and sunderland will be on the hot seat because it omissions he made in earlier testimony about he phone calls he had with trump over ukraine robert oulds al-jazeera washing. haiti's president as arranging talks to form a unity government. says international support is needed following 2 months of protest against high inflation poverty crime and corruption demonstrated a lack of a functioning government for the past 8 months is worsening the dye humanitarian crisis. do you agree. we are meeting with civil groups we're also talking to important people of the moderate political opposition such as those of the radical opposition we are also talking to people from civil society from the private sector now i see that all people are agreeing with a solution to the crisis however opposition politicians are actually rejecting the president's call for unity should we say that the solution to the crisis is through the resignation of president john l. boys there is no possibility of sharing anything with juvenile boys he has to resign to reach a transition that i

gordon somnolent the u.s. ambassador to the european union and sunderland will be on the hot seat because it omissions he made in earlier testimony about he phone calls he had with trump over ukraine rob reynolds al-jazeera washington. the family of a u.s. man whose execution was halted just days before is due to be carried out as hell to thank you vigil outside the texas governor's mansion in austin on the raid was convicted of raping and murdering a 19 year old woman back in 1906 the state's top appeals court to temporarily blocked his execution on friday after new evidence emerged raising serious doubts about his guilt the rights group the innocence project says race played a key part and reid's conviction. former malaysian prime minister najib razak has appeared in court for a new corruption trial so already involved in 2 other court cases the g. places allegations he and his family looted a state investment fund in a multi 1000000000 dollar fraud scandal spending 6 countries this latest case will examine accusations that he tampered with an investigation looking into that financial scandal but he denies

sunderland and his testimimony. well a bomb shell testimony- for g gordon some land and he really a laid everything out- proved. it really as showing as you mentioioned the- direct line between a donald trump and that's a pressure campaign on ukraine- true- launch at those investigations now as gordon someone's was very clear in his testimony he- did use. the word keep your quid pro quo he's there was a quid quo between- those investigations and- d. a white house meeting for evererybody near as a land ski. he did however stopped short of directly incriminating donald trump and he also- specifically a testified at that and he- came to believe as we heard in that sound bite. there was a link between the investigations and at the hold up in the military aid. abroad he testifiedd that no one including president had expired did we ever mentioned link it between e e military aidid. and add thoe investigation gordon as some landnd who are repeated several titimes. that in a conversasatin with donald trump donald trump said i don't want any quid pro quo so that that is something at that the republicans are realally jum

gordon sunland said he knew that the trumpet ministration withheld nearly $400000000.00 in a in american aid while pressuring ukraine to investigate president donald trump's political rivals sunderland testified in the impeachment inquiry on choose day in a reversal of his initial testimony he said that by the beginning of september quote in the absence of any credible explanation for the suspension of the aid i presumed that the aid suspension had become linked to the proposed anti corruption statement. washington correspondent for the area is following the inquiry and really the whole story for us. the testimony of the u.s. ambassador to the e.u. was quite a shock wasn't it. i don't mean it was a shock in the there's been many shocks but this was such a drastic change from the u.s. ambassador to the u. gordon them and to basically some of what he's saying is that he remembers in fact having an aide to the ukrainian president both of them made selenski in september at a war so meeting in which u.s. vice president vice pence was there that u.s. military i do you pray and would likely not occur on till ukraine and that is an investigation into corruption which also included allegatio

ambassador sunderland says that the president only cares about big stuff. i noted that there was big stuff going on in ukraine. gordonand replied that he meant big stuff that affect the president, like the biden investigation that mr giuliani was pressing. let's speak to our correspondent, david willis, who's been watching. this brings us to the end of five days of public testimony. what struck you as the most difficult out of what we heard today? fiona hill, who was president from's russian advisor urged lawmakers not to be drawn into what she called politically driven falsehoods, the notion that it was ukraine and not russia that interfered in the 2016 election. fiona hill said the notion that ukraine intervened and not russia was something that had been put around, perpetrated by russian security services, and she warned that russia may seek to intervene again and next year's residential election. summing up what might be the end of these public hearings, the end of these public hearings, the health intelligence committee chairman adam chef warned that president trump had, in his view, gone beyond anything his dis

gordon sunland the u.s. envoy to the european union and they claim he retaliated against them professionally after they rejected sexual advances sunderland denies all allegations calling them concocted sondheim's testimony linked president trump's decision to withhold aid from ukraine with investigations into his political rival joe biden. north korea says it has successfully tested 2 super large multiple rocket launches in forest confirmation earlier from south korea's military the north had fired 2 short range missiles into the sea it's believed north korea is supremely to kim jong un oversaw the test which coincides with the u.s. thanksgiving holiday kim has set a year end deadline to restart stalled denuclearization talks with washington quick reminder you can catch up any time with our website the address about is 0 dot com and you can watch us live by clicking on the orange live icon al-jazeera dot com. the mind of the top stories here now to syria is president donald trump says his government has resumed talks with the afghan taliban made the comments during a surprise visit to afghanistan trump met president ashraf ghani and addr

european union gordon somebody repeatedly talked of a quid pro quo in which trump wanted security aid withheld from ukraine in exchange for investigations into his political rival sunderland to the next a $1000000.00 to trump's inauguration implicated other top officials saying everyone was in the loop alan fischer reports from washington d.c. . from the u.s. ambassador to the e.u. study test. the money. said it was abundantly clear to everyone ukraine would not receive military aid from the u.s. or a meeting at the white house unless it announced an investigation into a company connected to the son of political opponent question joe biden was there a quid pro quo as i testified previously with regard to the requested white house call and the white house meeting the answer is yes. sunderland previously denied the security it was conditioned on the biden investigation but he told the impeachment panel it warts in the absence of any credible explanation for the suspension of aid i later came to believe that the resumption of security aid would not occur until there was a public statement from ukraine committing to the investigations of the 2016 elections and were recently a

gordon song plan of the u.s. ambassador to the european union was central to president trump's attempts to get ukraine to investigate his political rival joe biden has to sunderland told lawmakers that there was a print a quid pro quo in which ukraine was offered a white house meeting in exchange for announcing their corruption investigation is part of what ambassador sunderland had to say i tried diligently to ask why the aid was suspended but i never received a clear answer in the absence of any credible explanation for the suspension of aid i later came to believe that the resumption of security aid would not occur until there was a public statement from ukraine committing to the investigations of the 2016 elections and to resign as mr giuliani had demanded i shared concerns of the potential quid pro quo regarding the security aide with senator ron johnson and i also shared my concerns with the ukrainians so what does it all mean w.'s washington bureau chief alexandra naaman can bring us up to speed welcome alexandria so we heard the ambassador saying that there was a quid pro quo so where does that leave the president. well this is a bombshell we have to say